Arson Trust Indictments Hit Chicago Firms
Fifty six merchants and fire insurance adjusters were indicted by a special grand jury in Chicago on charges of arson and conspiracy with intent to defraud. A total of 259 indictments were returned, based on confessions of two men, with half the city fires deemed incendiary. The report blames insurers for lax oversight and urges tighter underwriting before publishable names are released next week.
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Chicago
Benjamin Fink
John Dantes
Grand Jury
Japan Protests Alien Land Bill in California
The Japanese government formally protested at the U S State Department against California's alien land ownership bill. Secretary Bryan and Japanese Ambassador Viscount Chinda discussed the matter privately, with Bryan examining the history of earlier negotiations between Root and Baron Takihara amid tensions over exclusion of Japanese children from public schools.
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Washington
State Department
Root
Baron Takihara
Roosevelt
America
Japan
Sugar Tariff Doubt Lingers in Wilson Plan
Washington August reports the Democratic tariff bill nearly finished with sugar tariff unresolved. The plan mirrors Wilson ideas, with free wool meats and many foods, low duties on agricultural goods, and deep cuts on chemical and steel products. Wilson presses sugar at one cent per pound for three years, then free sugar, while income tax scales rise across brackets.
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Washington
Wilson
Ways and Meany
Mrs Olson to Testify Monday at Husband's Trial
St Paul April authorities guard Mrs Olson to protect her ahead of her testimony about relations with Clyde Darling. Darling, a laundry wagon driver, was shot and killed by her husband Prof Oscar Olson of the University of Minnesota. Court session paused to allow preparation.
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St. Paul
Clyde Darling
Oscar Olson
University of Minnesota
Scutari Falls to Balkan Allies After Final Assault
London reports Scutari surrendered to Balkan allies this morning after a final assault. Similar but unconfirmed signals reached Paris, Vienna, and other capitals, with diplomats noting no authentic confirmation. The accounts say sixty thousand Balkan troops took part in the action.
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London
Scutari
Paris
Vienna
London Pleased With Mr Page
London reports the Nation's analysis of President Wilson's choice of Walter H Page as ambassador to Britain. The piece credits an 'interesting experiment' in selecting a scholar diplomat whose personality and American life flavor shape the diplomatic mission rather than wealth or lavish hospitality.
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the Nation
Wilson
Walter H. Page
St. Jamies
Page
Rome
United States
Aylesbury Prison for Mrs Pankhurst
The Home Office states Mrs Pankhurst will serve three years at Aylesbury prison a distant site chosen to blunt demonstrations She has not eaten since sentencing and no force feeding has begun If hunger continues release will follow when doctors deem further confinement dangerous No arrests tied to Oxted and Stockport explosions by suffragettes
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London
Aylesbury
Oxted
Stockport
Famous Auto Bandit Leaps to Death at Prison Roof
Paris April. M Lacombe, member of the famous Tiennet automobile bandit ring, escaped his cell and leapt from the roof of the prison court in the Sante prison after being cornered by an officer, dying instantly.
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Paris
Sante
M. Lacombe
Ming
Militants Fire Ayr Race Course Destruction
Militants early today set fire to the grandstand, stables and buildings at Ayr race course in Scotland. All structures were destroyed and losses fixed at fifty thousand? dollars. An important race meeting scheduled for 14 awaits decision on whether the course can be restored in time for the opening event.
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Scotland
Ayr
Body of Morgan Sails to United States aboard La France
Havre, April 5 The liner La France carrying the body of Morgan sailed at six o'clock with a crew of Americans bareheaded at the quay. Mrs Satterlee and a Morgan daughter stayed at the hotel while the steamer departed. The body was lashed in the mortuary aboard the liner and the usual gaieties will continue aboard at the request of Mrs Satterlee.
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Havre
la France
Morgan
Herbert Satterlee
Umatilla County Farmers Poised for Large Crop This Year
Signs point to another big crop in Umatilla County as experts note adequate soil moisture despite a below normal rainfall. Weather has allowed reseeding, though some grain was damaged by cold and tarler setbacks. Ground is workable again. most 1912 crop elements are resown with limited market demand and current prices at 73 cents for club and 84 for bluestem.
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Umatilla
Ineh
MANY MEN DESERT UNCLE SAMS ARMY
A government desertion problem grows each year with 4000 plus soldiers leaving the regular army annually. Sheriff Taylor receives daily circulars offering 50 dollar rewards for deserters and has logged hundreds since March. Deserters are often depicted negatively in the notices and though many are captured and court martialed, punishments fail to deter the trend.
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United States
T. ED. Taylor
Deven
Taylor
Uncle Sam
Congress to Aid Ohio Flood Sufferers
Columbus April 1 Two million dollars will be appropriated by congress for relief of the Ohio flood sufferers if Governor Cox plans work out Senator Pomierene to ask for the fund Eighty seven bodies have been recovered to date
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Columbus
Congress
Ohio
Cox
Pomierene
Peclares Girl Seized by White Slavers
J F Landseren sticks to his story about a migrant girl seized en route to Chicago from New York at New Castle Pennsylvania. A youth in a Breakemans cap and uniform boarded the train at New Castle and told the girls they could stop for lunch, saying nothing to the elder passengers.
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Apri
J. F. Landseren
Chicago
New York
New Castle
Lundgren
Volunteers Clean Omaha After Easter Tornado
About six thousand volunteers worked in Omaha today to clean up the district wrecked by the Easter Sunday tornado. Twelve hundred of the workers were school boys. The effort will continue tomorrow as volunteers, including a society of women and high school girls, provided meals at no cost.
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Omaha
Shipping activity steadies in Baker Oregon
In Baker Oregon during April a week of notable shipping activity was reported. Hay and grain led shipments with about ten carloads from Haines Commercial, plus four to five carloads each from Doodd & Anderson and the Farmers' Mercantile Co. J F O'Bryant sent a carload, and Highland mine shipped ore. The mine averages a carload weekly, signaling strong demand for Powder Valley products despite off-season levels.
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Haines Commercial Company
Doodd & Anderson
Hercantie Company
J. F. O' Bryant
Highland
River Rising at Cairo and Floods Hit Evansville
Evansville Indiana floods floodwaters inundate twenty miles of streets with the business district under water and many buildings endangered. Red Cross official Ernest Bicknell says twenty thousand families are homeless in southern Illinois and food is needed. Levees holding but conditions are dire across Indiana Illinois Ohio and Kentucky with reports of levee breaks at Point Pleasant and Memphis and authorities rushing to shore up defenses as water levels rise.
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Washington
Memphis
Evansville
Ind
Ernest Bicknell
The
Tllinois
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
West Virginia
Bicknell
Cairo
Point Pleasant
Missouri
Mound City
Illinois
Bayou Gayoso
Rebels Draw Lines Closer Around Naco
April dispatch from Naco reports 1500 Sonora constitutionalists tightening around Nico to trap General Ojeda and 300 federals as a battle looms. Ojeda's night retreat ended a brief clash with desultory firing and no injuries noted. A Cananea Copper Co movement of 40 cars of fel off and coke from Naco to Cananea aids smelter restart and local Jobs for about 1,000 workers.
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Nico
Ojeda
Chihuahua
Sonora
Caninea Copper Company
Naco
Arizona
Caninen
Pendleton Round-Up Eyes Rose Festival Parade Entry
The Pendleton Round-Up management aims for participation in Portland Rose Festival parades this year. Hy Eilers wrote to Roy Ritner proposing the idea, with a meeting slated for Round-Up directors Monday. A junketting trip ending in Portland is planned, with a band and possibly stage coaches, contingent on railroad cooperation and port city enthusiasm.
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Pendleton
Portland
Roy W. Ritner
Commercial Club
Hy Eilers
Rither
Bloody Auburn strike flares with troops ordered to shoot
Auburn New York April 5 violent strike actions erupted in the twine mills as about three hundred workers pelted machinists entering the International Harvester twine mills and the Columbia Rope plant. Soldiers and police dispersed the mob after several combatants were injured. Two militia companies arrived and were told to shoot to kill if yesterday’s trouble repeated.
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Auburn
N. Y
Big Twine
International Harvester Twine Mills
Columbia Rope
Hayward Freed of Prison Sentence in Silk Strike Case
Paterson N J April 5 Justice Minturn of the state supreme court freed William Haywood and Adolph Lessig who were sentenced to months for activities connected with the silk workers strike. Thousands of strikers cheered outside the courthouse as the decision was announced.
Hadley replies to Roosevelt on party split
Detroit April 3 Former Missouri governor Herbert Hadley told the McKinley club banquet that tariff money Philippines and Panama canal did not split the GOP. He blamed abuse of party machinery and urged reform of convention delegate selection. He predicted a Republican Democrat union soon.
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Detroit
Theodore Roosevelt
Herbert
Hadley
Missouri
McKinley Clay
Philippines
Panama Canal
Gangsters kill Tammany leader in Park Row
New York April 5 four gangsters shot and killed Eu gene Smith a Tammany political leader in Park Row. The assailants escaped as a brother said Smith was mistaken for someone else but police say he had become involved in a gang feud.
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New York
Eugene Smith
Tammany
Park Row
Smith
Yeggm en flee with $9000 from bank Alvarado Cal
Three masked men robbed an Alvarado bank early today as the vault door blew inward. Two accomplices held off citizens while the others escaped to the hills in a car with $9600 of the bank’s funds. Posses pursue the suspects.
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Alvarado
Cal
Train Plunge Kills 23 in Congo River Disaster
Roma Belgium Congo April 5 Twenty three persons die when a full train plunges through a railroad bridge into the Congo river. Richard Dude Devine a Ponchetan boy, known locally, returns home to spend spring vacation after eventful morning.
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Belgium
Congo
Congo River
Richard “Dude” Devine
University of Washington
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